If that's real, that would be after he was struck, right? The bullet is to his left, and he was shot from his right

Crazy. This is a good article to point to when people say everyone used to be better. Aside from all the, you know, racism, sexism, etc.

They did it once, then did it again and not only is it still just a fine, the fine didn't even go up. Given inflation since then, the fine actually went down in real terms.

That'll teach them for sure! /s

Anyone going without home insurance is paying cash for their house. No bank would give someone a mortgage on a property that could turn to ashes with no insurance.

I initially read that as "Florida scrambles to get retired teachers to return to combat."

Which isn't really wrong either.

Hopefully this isn't too pedantic, but it shouldn't say "first name" on any of these. It should say "given name" or "personal name".

The entire point of the map is that it isn't the first name for some cultures.

"Delaying"

I think that's the basic premise of the Star Trek hypospray. Pressure pushing in medicine rather than a needle.

I assume someone somewhere decided that it was going to net a profit (after already sunk production costs and yet-to-be-spent promoting costs and other obligations) of less than $30 million.

So if given the choice between hoping it maybe makes $20-40 million in net profit vs a guaranteed $30 million as a tax write-off, that's easy math for the number crunchers.

I have no idea but they could also have decided they didn't want to spend to promote it. It costs a fortune in money up front to promote movies these days, even after the movie is 'in the can'. Money is getting more and more expensive with interest rates going up, so financing even promotional costs is more expensive.

It would be great to stop requiring petroleum, but I appreciate that they're putting a priority on reducing greenhouse gas emissions first and foremost and aren't going to keep this project moving forward just to greenwash. It would be easy to not admit the mistake, but good on them for making a commitment and really meaning it.

They'd still be appalled and try to stop him given their strong moral code. And given that they'd be at full strength they'd probably find a way to stop him and reverse things faster than they did in OTL

It's been done before (though not intentionally at first), at the Salton Sea.

And the results weren't that bad (granted possibly a smaller scale than some are imagining when they forecast doom).

https://www.ppic.org/blog/the-troubled-history-and-uncertain-future-of-the-salton-sea/

But the problem is any deserts are deserts for a reason: lack of rainfall and/or natural inflow from rainwater upstream. The result is that you have to keep pumping in tons of water and/or rely on agricultural runoff which is nutrient-depleted and usually full of chemicals.

Read the rest of the linked article for what's going on with that one.